Lately they have been careless and either made my arm purple with a bad connection on the "pump back" line or the seperation filter failed. Got another 10 days till I can donate again so we'll see what happens then.
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Can't remember getting any kind of treatment like that.
Lately they have been careless and either made my arm purple with a bad connection on the "pump back" line or the seperation filter failed. Got another 10 days till I can donate again so we'll see what happens then.
Lately they have been careless and either made my arm purple with a bad connection on the "pump back" line or the seperation filter failed. Got another 10 days till I can donate again so we'll see what happens then.
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Was kididing. Had bruising as you described.
...didn't stop my donating...
...didn't stop my donating...
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re loCAtek 
edit to add - I wasn't saying that to contradict what you said, so hope it didn't come out like that. I only meant that I'd never heard that before. Don't know if my son's case was an exception. They didn't tell me if it was (but there were other worries at the time, so maybe it just didn't come up in the discussions).
I didn't know that - my second son, born prematurely, had two blood transfusions in the time before he was due to be born. They weren't any fancy blood - in fact it was 'just' my blood, 'cos it was a bit urgent and the circumstances warranted it and luckily we were a match - and I'm O+, the most common blood group. They were just 'regular' transfusions. Luckily he thrived and survivedPremature and new born babies don't have an immunity built up yet, so they can't take regular blood transfusions from everyday donors. They have to have hyper-clean blood in order to thrive and survive.
edit to add - I wasn't saying that to contradict what you said, so hope it didn't come out like that. I only meant that I'd never heard that before. Don't know if my son's case was an exception. They didn't tell me if it was (but there were other worries at the time, so maybe it just didn't come up in the discussions).
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Hi alice
Hope you are not anywhere near that cyclone that's hitting Australia. I don't think you are
Hope you are not anywhere near that cyclone that's hitting Australia. I don't think you are
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I'm in Victoria, which is at the bottom of the eastern side of Australia. It's hitting the top of the eastern side. So I'm nowhere near it, thankfully.
Although I do have some friends up there - not in the direct path, but up that way. They're down toward Mackay, which is the bottom part of the area that will be directly impacted. So they'll get some really bad storms and gale force winds, but not the full brunt of it. But my work has offices in the area that's getting hit. We usually interact quite a bit with them, particularly the Townsville office - I was talking to someone there by phone on Tuesday evening just before the office was closing to let the staff go home and prepare, and they were very,very scared. I hope they're okay.
The cyclone will probably cause more flooding in arears that have just been cleaning up after the january floods, so the poor buggers are just getting slammed at the moment.
We've got some flooding in Victoria, but that's up higher and to the left of where I live - not near me at all. And there's a couple of bushfires way, way over to the right of the state - again not near me. Australia's taking a bit of a beating at the moment.
The main impact for me of all these things is the workload - that's why I'm working 6 days a week and very long hours at the moment.
Although I do have some friends up there - not in the direct path, but up that way. They're down toward Mackay, which is the bottom part of the area that will be directly impacted. So they'll get some really bad storms and gale force winds, but not the full brunt of it. But my work has offices in the area that's getting hit. We usually interact quite a bit with them, particularly the Townsville office - I was talking to someone there by phone on Tuesday evening just before the office was closing to let the staff go home and prepare, and they were very,very scared. I hope they're okay.
The cyclone will probably cause more flooding in arears that have just been cleaning up after the january floods, so the poor buggers are just getting slammed at the moment.
We've got some flooding in Victoria, but that's up higher and to the left of where I live - not near me at all. And there's a couple of bushfires way, way over to the right of the state - again not near me. Australia's taking a bit of a beating at the moment.
The main impact for me of all these things is the workload - that's why I'm working 6 days a week and very long hours at the moment.
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Well you take care of yourself and I'll be in touch.
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Yes, of course Alice, a blood match from a close family member is ideal. Should that not work out, a CMV- is the safest donor to a preemie.
I don't kid about my super-powers, I've saved lives with them ...said with all humility, of course. ~heh.
CMV Cytomegalovirusis quite common in humans; while many never show symptoms; a CMV negative person has either never come in contact with it (highly unlikely) or they have such a high immunity that they've 'scrubbed' their blood of the infection, and the aforementioned proteins on the red blood cells caused by fighting the infection.
It's why I'm such a big advocate of blood donation. Can't do it all by myself!
...to be hero too!
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I don't kid about my super-powers, I've saved lives with them ...said with all humility, of course. ~heh.
CMV Cytomegalovirusis quite common in humans; while many never show symptoms; a CMV negative person has either never come in contact with it (highly unlikely) or they have such a high immunity that they've 'scrubbed' their blood of the infection, and the aforementioned proteins on the red blood cells caused by fighting the infection.
It's why I'm such a big advocate of blood donation. Can't do it all by myself!
...to be hero too!
clicky on picky
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I'm a big fan of blood donation. No matter what else happens that day you can go home knowing that you did 1 good thing for someone.
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CMV negative blood is also given to Immunocompromised adults, like those with HIV/AIDS.
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Plus it takes less acohol to get a buzz on.No matter what else happens that day you can go home knowing that you did 1 good thing for someone.